Thirteen U.S. Women's Open champions and 40 first time U.S. Women's Open competitors, ranging in age from 17 to 43 years old and representing 27 different countries descended upon the Lake Course at The Olympic Club on Monday for the 76th U.S. Women's Open.
This week will mark the 11th USGA Championship played at The Olympic Club, but the first time this prestigious club has hosted a U.S. Women's Open.
This is the 76th U.S. Women’s Open Championship and the fourth in the state of California.
The first U.S. Women’s Open, played at Spokane (Wash.) Country Club in 1946 and won by Patty Berg, was the only one conducted at match play. The Women’s Professional Golfers Association (WPGA) conducted the Women’s Open until 1949, when the newly formed Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) took over operation of the championship. The LPGA ran the Women’s Open for four years, but in 1953 asked the United States Golf Association (USGA) to conduct the championship, which it has done ever since.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, Thursday (June 3) and Friday (June 4), at 6,457-yard, par-71 The Olympic Club (Lake Course), in San Francisco, Calif.
The U.S. Women’s Open is a 72-hole, stroke-play competition. A field of 156 players will play 18 holes of stroke play on June 3 and 4, after which the field will be reduced to the low 60 scores and ties. Those players making the cut will play 18 holes on June 5 and 6. If there is a tie upon the completion of 72 holes, a two-hole aggregate playoff will immediately follow. If this playoff results in a tie, the tied players will immediately continue to play off hole-by-hole until the winner is determined.
HE OLYMPIC CLUB (LAKE COURSE) HOLE BY HOLE
Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Par 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 35
Yards 528 382 209 396 432 420 263 154 380 3164
Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total
Par 4 4 4 3 4 3 5 5 4 36
Yards 392 411 398 171 410 137 563 485 326 3293
Note: Yardages subject to change.
The USGA has announced the launch of a newly enhanced U.S. Open Augmented Reality (AR) App by Deloitte, designed to provide golf fans with an engaging and innovative experience for the 121st U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines Golf Course – and for the first time – the 76th U.S. Women’s Open at The Olympic Club.
Available in the Apple App and Google Play Stores, U.S. Open AR offers the first-ever AR app experience for a major women’s sporting event and will give fans watching at home a variety of exciting ways to follow the action at both of this year’s championships. Torrey Pines and The Olympic Club will come to life on users’ mobile devices, allowing fans to follow the action in real-time with three-dimensional views of all 36 championship holes on both courses.
Shopping for Father’s Day gifts is tough — what do you get the man who has almost everything? The answer: a gift card to Club Champion, the nation’s top club fitter, builder and retailer of the best brands in golf. They offer more than 50,000 hittable head and shaft combinations, and a professional-level fitting experience for golfers of any ability. For a limited time, get $75 toward Dad’s equipment purchase when you buy a gift card for $150 or more!
Ranked by Golf Digest among the 100 best club fitters eight times in a row, Club Champion’s unique coupling system allows them to combine any head and shaft together. The equipment available for testing is far more expansive than what’s offered at other fitting venues, and the variety allows their master fitters to find the perfect combination to optimize a golfer’s swing. Dad won’t have to wait to test the suggested clubs; he’ll get to hit the exact club that will be custom built for him.
On May 22nd, Bag Boy hosted a “Walk the Course” event at Independence Golf Club in Midlothian, Virginia to celebrate its 75th anniversary and encourage golfers to explore the health benefits of walking the course.
The highly anticipated event was well received by the local golf community. All day, golfers who booked a tee time from 8:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. were eligible to enjoy a complimentary Nitron™ auto-open push cart when walking their round. There are many health benefits of walking over riding, which include improved circulation, stronger bones and muscles, and increased heart and memory health.
Since 2008, Kentwool has offered a wide array of exceptionally comfortable and durable Merino wool socks, all proudly made in America. Kentwool’s new limited-edition U.S.A. Collection reflects this commitment to homegrown, high quality products that celebrate America with unique designs and color options that are only available for a limited time.
Kentwool socks are renowned for their unique combination of style, comfort, performance, and unmatched quality. Each pair is crafted with premium Merino wool yarn, providing maximum comfort through efficient moisture-wicking, odor-absorption and temperature-regulation.
The new for 2021 Sun Mountain Cirque is the company’s top-of-the-line rain gear featuring its most breathable waterproof rain suit to-date. The waterproof/breathable membrane has a 20k waterproof rating and an elite 50k breathability rating.
That's nearly double the breathability rating of past rain suits. Cirque is extremely lightweight, waterproof, quiet, and breathable due it’s three-layer construction. As an extra bonus the four-way stretch fabric makes this rain suit ultimately playable.
Golf Pride, a division of power management company Eaton and an industry leader in grip innovation, today announced it was the leading grip brand in play at the 2021 PGA Championship, with 81% of the field including the winner trusting Golf Pride Grips.
13 of the 16 players who finished within the Top 10 (and ties), including the 50-year-old champion, chose Golf Pride at the exceptionally difficult Kiawah Island Ocean Course. The winner relied on Golf Pride’s MCC, which is the #1 Grip Series Worldwide, preferred by both Touring professionals and amateurs with over 250 Tour wins.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that 27 additional golfers, including major champions Adam Scott and Bubba Watson, have earned full exemptions into the 2021 U.S. Open Championship, to be played June 17-20 on the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Course, in San Diego, Calif. These exemptions bring the number of fully exempt players to 76.
Exemptions were awarded to 24 players who earned a place in the top 60 of the Official World Golf Ranking® (OWGR) as of May 24, who were not otherwise exempt. Scott, who will compete in his 20th U.S. Open, won the 2013 Masters Tournament. He is ranked No. 39. Watson, who won the 2012 and 2014 Masters, is ranked No. 58. It will be Watson’s 15th U.S. Open. Brian Harman and Tommy Fleetwood, who were U.S. Open runners-up in 2017 and 2018, respectively, also earned entry through the OWGR. Fleetwood is No. 31 and Harman is No. 49.
Custom golf club fitter Club Champion announces the opening of its new fitting studio, located at 310 RT 36, West Long Branch, New Jersey. The store is open and accepting fitting appointments. This is Club Champion’s fourth location in the state of New Jersey.
Club Champion fits, sells and builds custom golf clubs using brands like Callaway, TaylorMade, Ping, Titleist, Cobra, Fujikura, Golf Pride and many more. The company delivers a Tour-level fitting that produces longer, more accurate shots with a nearly 100% satisfaction rate for golfers of any ability level.
Leading golf apparel brand Galvin Green has reported strong growth across the US and Canadian markets in recent months, with its range of stylish garments appealing to golfers looking for something special - from brightly colored outerwear to bold patterned polo shirts.
Designed for golfers by golfers, the brand’s award-winning 2021 ‘GameDay’ collection features premium lightweight yet durable garments, made from sustainable materials and available in a selection of fashionable colors that standout both on and off the golf course.
Cobra Golf®, a leader in golf club innovation, has announced one of two new putter families under the KING umbrella. The KING Vintage Series of putters blends classic shapes with modern and innovative performance. The family includes four unique shapes: a blade (Sport-45 & Sport-60), mallet (Torino), fang (Nova & Nova-40) and an oversize mallet (Stingray & Stingray-40) with model names that are inspired by classic sports cars.
The putters feature a steel chassis, simple sightlines for alignment, and a black and turbo yellow color scheme. With multiple shapes, hosels, and an adjustable weighting system, the Vintage family has a variety of options for any style of putting stroke. Additionally, COBRA engineers worked with SIK Golf and Bryson DeChambeau to design improved roll in a soft yet crisp feeling aluminum face insert. Utilizing SIK’s patented Descending Loft Technology (DLT), which features four descending lofts on the face, to produce the most consistent roll trajectory for different putting strokes and angles of attack.
COBRA Golf announced their first foray into the putter world in 2020, when they partnered with HP to become the first OEM to launch a commercial, 3D printed metal putter with the limited-edition KING SuperSport-35.
And now COBRA announced its official entry into the putter market with the KING 3D Printed Series – its first complete line of 3D Printed multi-material putters.
Firestone Country Club – renowned as one of North America’s most historic venues for championship golf – announces limited stay-and-play packages ideal for golf buddy trips and staycations this summer.
Through Sept. 6, the exclusive stay-and-play packages include overnight accommodations in Firestone’s standard club rooms and rounds of golf. There are 1 Day | 1 Night experiences including golf on the North Course, 2 Days | 1 Night itineraries including a round of golf on the South and North Courses and 2 Days | 2 Nights packages including golf on both courses. Rates for each package will be based on room type, courses, nights and rounds.
Mizuno staff player Greyson Sigg continued his climb up the professional ranks by claiming his first Korn Ferry Tour win and earning playing rights on the PGA Tour.
26-year-old Greyson Sigg, a former University of Georgia standout, produced a remarkable four-round total score of 20-under-par to win the Visit Knoxville Open on the Korn Ferry Tour. It was his first victory on the circuit.
Shot Scope (www.shotscope.com), a leading international manufacturer of GPS-based golf management systems, including the award-winning V3 Smart Golf Watch, today announced the Company’s products have recorded 100 million golf shots.
Surprisingly, over the past four years Shot Scope has recorded 50 million golf shots, while in the past 10 months alone it added 50 million more, which is a strong testament not only to Shot Scope product technology, but the growing popularity of golf around the world.
Golf Pride, an industry leader in grip innovation and the #1 Grip on Tour®, announced today it is expanding its popular MCC® Teams family by offering the original 15 team color combinations in the Plus4 model as well as five new color options in Plus4.
The line extension is the perfect option for players that want to show their fandom and style on the course, and prefer the larger lower hand feel of Plus4. The new color options bring together performance-technology, expression of colorful style and many more opportunities to show college, pro, or even high school spirit.
PUMA Golf introduced the latest in its Tracks drop, the Palmetto Collection. The head-to-toe collection pays homage to the PGA Championship and the classic styles of the South, debuting PUMA’s first technical seersucker fabric, with performance elements needed for golf.
Designed using the Palmetto tree the state tree of South Carolina, Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau and Gary Woodland will wear pieces from the Collection as they tee it up this week at Kiawah Island.
The USGA will fund 135 internships across its network of 59 Allied Golf Associations (AGAs) in 2021 through the P.J. Boatwright Jr. Internship Program, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Since the program’s inception in 1991, the USGA has invested more than $30 million into cultivating future leaders of the golf industry by providing qualified applicants of all backgrounds with paid, hands-on experience as staff members at state and regional golf associations. The program has helped launch the careers of more than 3,000 individuals, with alumni holding leadership positions throughout the golf and broader sports industries and beyond.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 6th U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, Saturday (May 22) and Sunday (May 23), at 7,475-yard, par-72 Chambers Bay, in University Place, Wash., and at 7,279-yard, par-71 The Home Course, in DuPont, Wash.
The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball consists of 36 holes of stroke play on May 22 and 23, after which the 128 sides (256 players) will be reduced to the low 32 sides (64 players). There will be five rounds of match play at Chambers Bay, starting May 24. The quarterfinals are slated for May 25, while the semifinals will be played the following morning. The championship is scheduled to conclude with an 18-hole final on Wednesday, May 26, starting at 1 p.m. PDT.
Ever since Under Armour released their first Jordan Spieth model golf shoes four years ago (the Spieth One), there's been a strong diversity of opinion about them with each successive release. From comfort and fit to traction and design, feelings on the Spieth shoes were mixed.
And I can tell you right off the bat, there will be a striking consensus about the new Spieth 5. In every way possible, these are the best Spieth shoes Under Armour has ever designed (and it's not even close).
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that Phil Mickelson has received a special exemption into the 121st U.S. Open Championship, which will be conducted June 17-20 at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, Calif.
“Phil Mickelson’s incredible USGA playing record and overall career achievements are among the most noteworthy in the game’s history,” said USGA CEO Mike Davis. “We are thrilled to welcome him to this year’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.”
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that it has accepted 2,999 entries for the 41st U.S. Senior Open Championship, scheduled for July 8-11, 2021 at Omaha (Neb.) Country Club. Twelve past champions are among the 84 players who are currently fully exempt into the championship.
Kenny Perry, the 2013 and 2017 champion, and 11 other Senior Open champions are fully exempt from having to qualify for the championship. They are: Olin Browne (2011), Brad Bryant (2007), Roger Chapman (2012), Fred Funk (2009), Bernhard Langer (2010), Jeff Maggert (2015), Colin Montgomerie (2014), Don Pooley (2002), Eduardo Romero (2008), Gene Sauers (2016) and David Toms (2018).
FJ continues to innovate as the leader in golf wearables with the Southern Living Collection. This collection is FJ’s take on timeless Southern Style, which celebrates the effortless, yet sophisticated charm of the Low Country. The apparel pieces combine a casual, Southern style with premium, lightweight materials and advanced performance fabrics.
Southern Living commemorates the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island by featuring warm, inviting Southern-inspired colors with a modern twist on traditional seersucker print.
TaylorMade Golf Company, Inc. has announced that its current financial sponsor, KPS Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement, through an affiliate, to sell TaylorMade Golf Company, Inc., to Centroid Investment Partners, a Seoul, Korea based private equity firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Established in 1979, TaylorMade is a leading global manufacturer of golf equipment, balls, bags and accessories with a #1 or #2 market position in most of its key categories and markets. For over 40 years, TaylorMade has brought innovative, high performance product technologies to golfers worldwide and has an unrivaled portfolio of athletes across the global tours including world #1 Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Matthew Wolff, SH Park, Charley Hull, Maria Fassi and Sierra Brooks.
Tour Edge set a new personal best for the number of clubs in play in a PGA TOUR event and at a Major Championship this past week at the Regions Tradition with 55 total Exotics clubs in play, according to the Darrell Survey.
In total, 21 various Exotics drivers, fairways, and hybrids, eight Exotics utility irons, two sets of Exotics C721 irons, two sets of Exotics Forged irons and five EXS Blade Wedges were in play by 17 different players at the Regions Traditions.
Shot Scope, a leading international manufacturer of GPS-based golf management systems, including the award-winning V3 Smart Golf Watch, today released the 2021 Strokes Gained e-book, a 4th Edition resource guide available free for golfers to better understand the importance of analyzing strokes gained vs. traditional swing statistics. The new e-book is available at https://shotscope.com/golf-ebooks/.
“Strokes gained is a way of analyzing where a player sits when comparing every aspect of their performance with other players within a dataset,” said David Hunter, CEO, Shot Scope. “Through our 2021 e-book and our overall performance tracking platform, and based on swing data captured from thousands of golfers around the world who use our GPS Smart Watches, this approach to performance analysis allows golfers to gain a greater understanding of areas within of their game they may need to work on to improve their overall scoring average. This is accomplished by isolating individual aspects of a player’s game and comparing it to the entire Shot Scope dataset to deliver efficient results.”
PGA Golf Exhibitions, in partnership with the PGA of America, has announced several initiatives regarding the annual PGA Show and year-round programs that will continuously connect the industry and drive forward golf business.
Welcoming the golf industry back together Jan. 25-28, 2022, in Orlando, the experience will be a reimagining of the flagship PGA Show including sharing plans to enhance in-person business interactions, experiential product education and comprehensive golf merchandise sourcing.
PUMA Golf has unveiled its latest Volition America X PUMA Golf Collection, just in time to celebrate Memorial Day on the links.
The 2021 collection continues to make a patriotic statement with stylish, performance-ready pieces that are designed to honor and support the families of our military heroes through the Folds of Honor Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to providing educational scholarships to spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service-members.
The new Cuater Wildcard (leather) pretty much have everything you’d want in a spikeless, sneaker style golf shoe.
The low profile fit makes you feel extremely connected to the ground. And a thick cushion in the footbed is soft enough for fantastic, all-round comfort but also firm enough to feel very stable.
The new Titleist TSi3 hybrid is one of my favorite and best performing clubs I've hit this year. It's compact looking at address, and convincingly delivers more iron-like precision than a larger hybrid.
Trajectory, descent, and spin are ideal to hold any green, and yet with a little ball position adjustment you can also hit this for maximum roll out to advance on longer holes. TSi3 really is a hybrid that does everything you'd want and more.
This 48th Walker Cup Match will long be remembered for the strength and grit of both the USA and Great Britain & Ireland Teams in the face of unusually adverse circumstances. Still, only one team could earn the chance to hoist the most prestigious team prize in amateur golf, and it was the USA coming out on top, 14-12, to win its third consecutive Walker Cup.
With abundant sunshine and a steady breeze off the Atlantic Ocean making Seminole play exceedingly difficult on Sunday, especially on and around the greens, the players faced a stern mental and physical test. The USA entered the day with a 7-5 lead, which was trimmed to 8½–7½ after the GB&I Team took 2½ out of 4 points in the morning foursomes session.
Just in time to celebrate Memorial Day on the links, COBRA Golf is introducing a new addition to the Volition America Golf Collection, the Limited-Edition VOLITION RADSPEED and RADSPEED XB Drivers ($549). A portion of the proceeds from this one-of-a-kind driver will go to the Folds of Honor Foundation, supporting the families of American military heroes.
The new LE VOLITION RADSPEED Driver is designed in a patriotic Red, White, and Blue colorway with a stunning pearl white carbon crown and a blue PVD CNC Milled Infinity Face. A Project X HZRDUS Smoke RDX Blue shaft in an IP finish and custom black and red Lamkin Crossline CONNECT grip finish off the unique look that is sure to grab attention on the tee all year round.
Galvin Green, the leading high-performance golf apparel brand based in southern Sweden, won the coveted ‘Sustainability in Sport’ title at the 2021 Sports Technology Awards ceremony in London yesterday ahead of an impressive shortlist of product innovators.
Viewed by a global audience of more than 700 sports tech experts and promoters on a sophisticated virtual platform, Galvin Green was recognized for its constant drive to push the boundaries of technical fabrics while maintaining the highest standards in environmental protection. In particular, the judges praised its range of INSULA™ sweaters made from recycled plastic bottles, which they described as: “an innovative product with a timely purpose…the data, clarity of vision and targeted approach all support a clear road map for the brand.”
PUMA Golf is introducing its new PopTop speaker, perfect for golfers who enjoy listening to their favorite tunes on the links. The PopTop powered by Speaqua Sound Co. is designed to deliver premium sound from the course to the beach, poolside, or anywhere the music and your favorite beverage may take you.
The new, larger PopTop, will take you from an early morning tee time straight to the 19th hole, delivering 10+ hours of battery life, with the bonus of phone charging capabilities. Additionally, the speaker features a built-in-ball marker and handy bottle opener, so you can tee-it-up and turn-it-up all round long.
The National Golf Foundation and Golf Datatech, LLC who for years have collaborated in providing the industry with monthly rounds played reports, are heightening their efforts to recruit more golf courses and operators to participate in the ongoing tracking study, with the goal of producing more finely-tuned research for every city and state in the U.S.
Golf Datatech and NGF work together to solicit monthly rounds played information from more than 14,000 U.S. golf facilities, aggregating and analyzing data for reports that detail year-over-year changes in play by region and state, as well as in select major cities. Through their combined efforts, the number of participating golf facilities has risen to almost 18% of all U.S. facilities.
The Insperity Invitational is a PGA Tour Champions event that has been good to Tour Edge and their staff players, and the 2021 rendition was no different.
Tour Edge staffer Scott McCarron came into the event as the defending champion from the 2019 tournament after last year’s cancellation and Bernhard Langer is a 4-time champion of the longtime event.
